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'*batteries not included' released

When: 18 Dec 1987
Sources: 1 public source

Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, who starred in *batteries not included, in 1988 Alan Light, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Universal released *batteries not included, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin, in which small living flying saucers help elderly tenants resist eviction from their New York building. Effects delays pushed the opening from June to December 1987.

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Other*batteries not included (1987) (opens in a new tab)AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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